Berezniki
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Berezniki is the second-largest city in Perm Krai, Russia. The city is located on the banks of the Kama River, in the Ural Mountains with a population of 132,841 as of 2025.
Berezniki City Administration building and central square
Trinity Church
BTZ trolleybus and railway station in Berezniki
Trolza trolleybus in Berezniki
Boris Yeltsin
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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990. He lat
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…Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russian billionaire, controlled the leading Berezniki potash mines from 2000 — 2011 Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first president, attended Pushkin High School in Berezniki Законодательное собрание Пермской области. Закон №416-67 от 28 февраля 1996 г. «Об…
Official portrait, 1992
Yeltsin (second from left) with his childhood friends in the 1940s
In 1976, Yeltsin was interviewed by Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, who decided that he was an appropriate choice to become First Secretary of the party's Sverdlovsk obkom.
Mikhail Gorbachev took office as the General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1985; he soon promoted Yeltsin to a job in Moscow.